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Makane Elhay
Makane Elhay

Reputation:

Replacement for CMake

I'm using CMake into build rules in visual studio to preprocess my files before submitting them to the compiler but my customers don't like it.

Is there any CMake alternative or method to preprocess my files and having them integrated into visual studio?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4479

Answers (1)

legalize
legalize

Reputation: 2251

As I understand the question you are using CMake to generate files consumed by a VS project that you created by hand. For whatever reason your customers of your VS project don't like CMake. Presumably you have wired this up by creating custom build steps that invoke CMake to generate the files in your project, either as Build Events on the project, or as custom build steps on various files in the project, such as the inputs to the scripts.

VS lets you run any arbitrary set of commands as part of a Build Event or a Custom Build Step. So you could replace CMake with a suitable script or custom executable written by yourself. It is hard to be specific without knowing exactly what about CMake isn't appealing to your customers.

You can use JavaScript through Windows Script Host to create fairly complex scripts that process custom build steps. They can take command-line arguments, access the file system, etc. For some reason WSH JavaScript is a big secret among most developers and they think that all they have available to them in Windows out-of-the-box are DOS batch files and power shell scripts. JavaScript has been shipping for over 10 years as part of the OS and you can debug the scripts in Visual Studio's script debugger, which is very nice.

Upvotes: 3

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